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Jack Clay Book

Jack Clay was going nowhere,

Regularly in and out of prison for criminality and extreme violence, it was only a matter of time before Jack ended up with a huge prison sentence, or worse. Jack had always found it hard to control his temper, ever since his doting father Douglas Clay had been murdered by a local gypsy family who had beaten him to death and dumped his lifeless body on the street for the crows to pick at. His mother, the now widowed Pearl Clay was left to fend for herself and little Jack, she did her best of course but when Richie Powers, a local north London gangster had come along in 1979 she took up with him and saw it as a way to protect herself and her young boy who was only nine at the time, however he was a brute of a man who cared for no one but himself, he regularly beat Jack and his mother for the slightest indiscretion or “back chat”, Jack hated him and was simply waiting for his chance, that day came one evening when Ritchie Powers had arrived home drunk as usual and set about Pearl for not having his dinner ready, during the Mellay that ensued Jack bludgeoned his mother’s boyfriend to death with a marble ashtray, he was fifteen the time